The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-09-22
THE EDITORS DESK.
COMMENTS ON TOPICS THAT ARE
INTERESTING THE PEOPLE.

The Chronicle Expresses It's Opinion on
Passing Public Events and Questions
of Interest Now Before the People.
YoU cannot think that the buckling on
Of knights armour by his lady's hand
vas mere caprice of romantic fashion.
Ii is the type of an eternal truth that the
souls armour is never well set to the heart
unless woman's hand has braced it, and
il is only when she braces it loosely that
the honor of manhood falls Ruskin.
Boston people will find it difficult to be
lieve that the following advertisement ap
peared in the Evening Post of Boston, in
l742: TO be sold by the Printer of this
Paper, the very best Negro Woman in this
Town, who has had the Small Pox and the
Measles; is as hearty as Horse, as brisk
as a Bird, and will work like Beaver.
August %, 1742."
THE October Harper's contains a suite
Of Abbey's exquisite illustrations to an old
ballad by George Wither, called IA Love
Song" The quaint poem is not found in
the ordinary collections. 1t begins:
II Low q IaSSe, 1dlre one,
AS falre eer was scene:
She was, indeed. a rare one,
Another Sheba queene:
But, foole, as then | was,
| thought she Low d me too;
But, now, alaSSe! Sh as left me,
Falero, 1ero, loo"
THE refusal last week to allow Most to
take he oath and become a citizen because
he i an anarchist, followed by the opinion
by the Supreme Court of the State of Hill
nois confirming the sentence of the Chi
cago Anarchists, indicates very clearly that
the American people are at last becoming
aroused and will make the Anarchists
walk The Chicago bombthrowers will
swing from the gallows, and men who be-
ieve in law and order will rejoice that the
law is enforced.
WE have received, from Rev. G. s. Jones,
of Hendersonville, n. c., a paper contain
in. statistics about Sunday Schools, and
the need of establishing them and sup
pving them with Bibles and Sunday School
literature in destitute portions of Western
North Carolina. We are requested to state
that Mr., Jones is willing to undertake the
work OF planting and aiding schools in his
section, and will gladly receive any aid
sent him by friends of the Sunday School
work. Here is place for the Christian
70 send his money with the assurance that
It will be wisely expended.
SUCH serious conflicts of opinion have
arisen between the members Of the Civil
Service Commission over the question of
the right of removal of clerks, that there
IS some talk of the resignation Of the Pres
ident, Mr.. Edgerton, who holds that the
appointing power has the authority to dis
miss employees Ill the classified service alb
solutely, without asking questions, while
his colleagues maintain that no removals
should be made without specifying the
cause-that this power is extremely limit
ed 1t is expected that the President will
be finally called upon to settle the contro
gersy-
A PREACHER writing to the Raleigh Ad
yOcate about revival, in which he was
recently engaged, uses this quaint express
sion, The good Lord and working church
we're our help This reminds US Of one
Of Swift Galloway's inimitable stories, IN
which he makes his hero, local politician
not many removes from demagogue, say
TO his hearers: Eyes, fellow citizens, | am
an educated man, but, fellow citizens, let
me say to you that but for the help of the
Lord AND FEW OTHER GENTLEMEN 1 should
-, fa1Ic
You are, fellow citizens"
The Republican State Convention, Of
Grant, ''son of his daddy for Secretary of
State. Senator Evarts placed him in nomi-
nation in speech of great power and elo-
quence The nomination OF Col. Grant
means that the campaign is to be fought
on war issues, and that the Republicans
rely upon the talismanic influence of the
Grant name to bring success. New York
didn't Ego Wild over the name Grant in
1868 when Immediately after the War, 1t
gave its electoral vote to seymour. The
Republicans deserve defeat-and if for no
other reason than because they nominate
4 man on Cne SCrenStn OIL Ills ldtuef rep
utation. That sort of thing has played out.
OUR Republican exchanges have recently
published a letter from Fred. Douglass
urging the negroes to vote the Republican
ticket. This shows that the more sensible
negroes are getting ready to leave the
g 0. p, and it is thought necessary to
sing the Publican party freed you' cry
again. Let them ring it! Let North Caro-
lima Republican papers quote Douglass,
If they choose, but the CHRONICLE can tell
them that no decent Southern white man,
or negro who has particle of race pride,
has any respect for any negro who marrles
white woman. Miscegenation propagan-
di9ts will have no followers among decent
men. White Republicans ought to be
ashamed to quote from the pen of Doug
lass,
lS New York the Governor has appoint
ed statistician to show the amount OF
money invested in manufacturing enter
prlses that require the employment of
large numbers of men; the money expend-
ed n wages; the profits to the owners; and